Friedemann Metzger

Friedemann Freiherr Metzger (1775-) was the President of the German Confederation from 1806.

Biography
Friedemann Metzger was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, in northern Germany (then part of the Kingdom of Prussia) in 1775. He had a harsh reputation, making him good at managing justice affairs, but was also a stallholder, meaning that he was good with the reasury. Metzger later received a knighthood, making him influential in politics.

In 1806, in response to the bankruptcy of Prussia and the failures in the field against the French Army, the people of Berlin started a revolution under General Gottlieb Richmann. Metzger took control of the government and formed a united German Confederation, a republican government that ruled over all of the small German states that Germany had under their control.